What the heck are friends doing here?
One of the media fallouts of the Julio Iglesias case has been the appearance of all sorts of his friends defending him on television. Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are. The array of personalities and their contributions have served to confirm the scale of values and the retrograde ideology surrounding the singer. On Tuesday, Ana Obregón caused secondhand embarrassment by developing theories that exposed her ignorance and frivolity. She used the most lurid details denouncing the sexual exploitation of women to refute them through her personal experience. For example, she considered it impossible that the singer had abused women because she had eaten fried eggs with chips in Julio Iglesias's kitchen, and the Dominican cook sat at the table with them, and the singer treated her with great cordiality. The following day, Ramón Arcusa of Dúo Dinámico finished the job, asserting that Julio Iglesias's sexual relations with his employees were consensual because they occurred regularly. Among other absurdities, he showed off his investigative skills and declared that the complainants were lying because they explained that he forced them to consume tequila, and the member of Duo Dinámico said that he had never seen this drink at Julio Iglesias's house.Julio does have some very good wines, though. He has some excellent wines. But there's no tequila in his house; I've never seen it there."Case closed, Ramón.
The inevitable question from a journalistic point of view is: what role do Julio Iglesias's friends play in commenting on the singer's abuse allegations? That they didn't witness the events (or didn't see tequila in his hand at the bar). On the other hand, for decades, television has used "I never saw anything" as a mitigating factor for the protagonist. Accusations of assault don't fit with the behavior they have had the privilege of observing. Their arguments force the confusion between privacy and truth. Symptomatic. Television invites friends and provides a domestic portrait of Julio Iglesias: how he had breakfast, how he treated the staff, how generous he was, his refined manners, his affable nature... An everyday account that aims to defuse the
